Introduction: A Struggle for Life

YI-FENG HO
Staff Writer

Each month is dedicated to different people who are affected by specific cancers. Cancer is a much-feared disease and takes many forms. The month of September focuses on patients with leukemia, ovarian cancer, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, lymphoma and childhood cancer. To treat cancer, patients go through a process that can take up to months or even years and they will also be physically impaired, which causes them to lose some of their most basic abilities. Friends and families of a cancer victim go through ordeals such as giving emotional support to the patient when they are going through tough times. Cancer Awareness Months are set up to relieve these types of situations by helping cancer patients and their friends and families both
emotionally and physically.